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by CodeSheikh 9y ago
This scenario is pretty much applicable for any private corp. across the nation or globe. Every company has their own rules and regulations around the secrecy of new products before the launch in order to stay competitive. The reason this n
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As an immigrant New Yorker, I welcome this step and kudos to the local government of NZ for taking such initiative. For example on NYC foreign investors have ruined the prospect for an average hard working New Yorker couple to purchase a pr
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What about creating more private research centers? Where the benefits are not tied to individual company profits or have them hoping for patents stash. OpenAI is an example of one of such initiatives. Similar centers can be spun off more o
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Coach of an unpopular college team makes more ($300k) than some fortune 500 CEOs(sports.usatoday.com)
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Sending alums back to top tier schools is also part PR too for the companies. "Hey look Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are on our campus today. Great companies at great colleges gets great news coverage".
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The reason there never will be a "fifth" horseman is because these four giant fishes keep devouring the little ones (startup acquisition/acqui-hire). Just because things happened in past a certain way, that does not necessari
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by CodeSheikh 9y ago
NYC is not a bike friendly city at all (some parts of certain boroughs might be). Biking in NYC is also a quick ticket to ER room. I have already eye witnessed multiple altercations and accidents of bicyclists in this city. Scary.
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He is conveniently retiring to cash in severance packages and bonuses. He should be fired and brought in front of a judicial committee to answer questions for risking identity info of millions of consumers.
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Problem is recruiter's and co are the ones always coming up with such nonsensical lists. As a lot of commenters have mentioned, these lists are meaningless to a seasoned programmers who can adapt with changing time and tech.
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Since when Myer is an "inspirational" leader? Oh sarcasm.
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I am still waiting for Silicon Valley TV show to pick up this vast subject of Myer's tenure at Yahoo into one of its episodes.
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I have been meaning to read that book recommended by a friend working in tech. Apparently there's a movie out now too :)
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This sounds more promising than getting a "decorated" MBA degree from an overrated "top league" school. It makes sense to hire a person whose managerial skills are forged in technical training.
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Replacing project managers and introducing reward/score based AI bots that keep track of progress of individuals as function of stories they are working on, and these bots send out reminders (slack chat bots perhaps). This will can hel
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Nice graph-based menu.
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Agree. Govt regulations can become a a major road block. As much good these regulations provide for the safety of consumers, they sure can prove out to be a hurdle for innovation when ill enforced. For example, I have heard from friends doi
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Where's Zynga hanging out these days?
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Plenty of Snapchat users (the ones who created the hype) are no longer teenagers. They are moving away from Snapchat to more concrete (perceived adult-ish) platforms like Instagram or not use them at all. Snapchat failed to evolve their pro
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by CodeSheikh 9y ago
Is this an old article? Conexant was acquired by Philips a while back.
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Perhaps a disruption in airline industry is needed. Maybe one of those mega tech billionaires (Bezos, Musk, Page/Brin etc.) can pay more attention to this market and see investment opportunities. Such disruption would need to go beyond
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...except state monarchies with telecom monopolies banning Whatsapp, Skype, Facetime...
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Interesting to see NXP Semiconductors there. Being primarily a semiconductor manufacturer how do they use JVM based (Java etc) language ecosystem in their products? SDK to program their boards for development purposes?
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Shareowner mostly comprise of greedy wall streets fund managers and they will short the shares with out caring much about the DNA of the company or its organic growth. Shareowners as in fund manager never cared much about private small shar
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Yeah 6.2% of APPL shares not the % stake in the company.
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"Einhorn, whose Greenlight Capital owns 3.6 percent of GM, was equally tough in the letter he sent to shareholders..". Someone help me understand how come a person/entity who merely owns 3.6% of a company has the right to be
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by CodeSheikh 9y ago
It is nice to see how more and more tech companies are taking this initiative to hold on-campus intro to programming classes (mostly it is javascript or python). But before most of these companies decide to teach coding to every single empl
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CORRECTION: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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Put a new bridge crossing Hudson between west Manhattan and Jersey City to reduce the ACTUAL traffic coming in from New Jersey. Oh wait..they can't as it will bring down inflated real estate in Manhattan held by older folks with convin
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Shaq here, a MVP and 4 times NBA championships. That dot looks convincingly flat to me, not round.
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This is not a US vs India comparison. It is a "controlled" data set study done on Indian engineers trained in India. I am sure a separate study can surface interesting trends about US workforce as well.

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